Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 263
he funOf putting on inscriptions. But now, bereft of all employ,The prince was still a little boy,And Satan, then as now, could findSome mischief still, an idle mind And idle hands bestirring.As lorn and lonely Amnes sat,He all at once espied a catThat curled near by upon a mat, And coaxed her to… … J9°4-] AMNES AND HIS CAT. 251 But Tabbys tail was thick and soft;With yearning he had marked it oft,And now — temptation was too great:He grasped — oh, awful to relate,Regardless of his future fate,Deliberately he squeezed it! Within the hall the feast was spread,The guests filed in, by Nepthah…
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